Republicans call in at 202 7488001. Independent colors callin at 202 7488002. And a special line this morning for recent immigrants 202 7488003. You can always catch up with us on social media on twitter and on facebook. Good Tuesday Morning to you. The country waking up to a new head of the department of justice today. Dana been taken appointed by donald trump as the acting attorney general after sally gates ordered her staff to refuse to enforce the president s temporary ban on entry to the United States for citizens of the seven muslim majority countries. The Washington Post story said that the white house said that yates betrayed the department of justice. Dana boente said he would enforce the president s directive until he was replaced by senator Jeff Sessions. There is a markup for his nomination taking place this morning at 9 30. We will show that live on cspan3. We will be with you on washington journal until 10 00. Barack obama injected himself into the debate, doing so in the
Besides firing sally yates, the white house attacked her personally, in line with mr. Trumps way of answering questions. Today the speaker of the house weighed in on all this, and nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Regretly the rollout was confusing. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan faulted the travel bans launch but not the substance. What is happening is something we support. You have a lot of military and Intelligence Experts warning this is going to serve as a recruiting tool. The rhetoric around this could be used as a recruiting tool. Reporter its more than just rhetoric. Officials throughout the that the timing of this has given isis a lifeline. You could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material. Ryan argued its a risk worth taking. There is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate our refugee population. But they havent been able to partly because our let me answer your question. There is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure we have t
That would be true of virtually everyone who was a nominee over the last quarter century. This is a nominee reflective of the president s party and that is what elections are about and the people that president obama pientd. There has been tremendous consternation about the change that would no longer require 60 votes to end debate. I think a lot of people have a misunderstanding of how we got here. I think it is important for the people of florida to know how i approached it. It is the no something that i am excited or happy about. I would say that is the sentiment of most of the people here in the senate and yet it happened anyway. I saw an editorial cartoon, and it had a picture of both sides saying this is terrible but were going to do it anyway. The senate is unique. There is no other legislative body in the world like it. Unlike most legislative institutions it does not function by majority rule. It actually requires supermajorities to move forward. That was by design. It was not
That would be true of virtually everyone who was a nominee over the last quarter century. This is a nominee reflective of the president s party and that is what elections are about and the people that president obama pientd. There has been tremendous consternation about the change that would no longer require 60 votes to end debate. I think a lot of people have a misunderstanding of how we got here. I think it is important for the people of florida to know how i approached it. It is the no something that i am excited or happy about. I would say that is the sentiment of most of the people here in the senate and yet it happened anyway. I saw an editorial cartoon, and it had a picture of both sides saying this is terrible but were going to do it anyway. The senate is unique. There is no other legislative body in the world like it. Unlike most legislative institutions it does not function by majority rule. It actually requires supermajorities to move forward. That was by design. It was not
That would be true of virtually everyone who was a nominee over the last quarter century. This is a nominee reflective of the president s party and that is what elections are about and the people that president obama pientd. There has been tremendous consternation about the change that would no longer require 60 votes to end debate. I think a lot of people have a misunderstanding of how we got here. I think it is important for the people of florida to know how i approached it. It is the no something that i am excited or happy about. I would say that is the sentiment of most of the people here in the senate and yet it happened anyway. I saw an editorial cartoon, and it had a picture of both sides saying this is terrible but were going to do it anyway. The senate is unique. There is no other legislative body in the world like it. Unlike most legislative institutions it does not function by majority rule. It actually requires supermajorities to move forward. That was by design. It was not